Children’s Health

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou Diverse Representation I am a young black woman, and I am just one of many sharing the message that taking action...

This post is written by Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll, Green the Church Co-Founder. It first appeared in Successful Black Parenting (used with permission): Today, being Black in America is dangerous. My wife and I don’t want our children to worry about their survival. We want them to run,...

Trump’s EPA is appalling. It’s retreat from protecting our families from pollution has already launched a process to sabotage and ultimately destroy our Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. These are protections that keep mercury, a terrible poison, from harming our babies’ brains. Under the leadership of Andrew Wheeler,...

This is an interview with Dr. Gredia Huerta Montanez, an environmental health pediatrician in Puerto Rico and a member of the EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee: Dr. Huerta Montanez, can you please tell us about the work you do as an environmental...

It’s been almost two months since, Hurricane Michael, the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane in the U.S., made landfall. It was painfully ironic that the damage which overwhelmed areas of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, also overshadowed the dire news of the most recent IPCC report....